Improvement in cylinder for mixing fertilizers



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LEMAN E. PITeHEa, or SALINA, NEW YORK.

Leners Patent nu. 105,839, aan July 26, 1870.

V IMPROVEMENT IN" CYLINDER FOR MIXING- FERT-ILIZERS.

The `schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

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` `Be it known that I, LEMAN B. IlTeHEn, of the town of Salina, in -the county of Onondaga and State of `New York, have invented a certain new and improved4 Mixing and Sitting-Cylinder for general use in commingling, picking, riddling, and screening various compounds, designed` more particularlyfor. agricultural purposes; `and I do `herebydeclare that the following is a `full, clear, and exactdescription ofthe same,

reference being hadto the annexed drawing which forms apart ofthis specilication,and which -gives a general perspective' view of vthe same, and also a par- `tial interior` view where thelside is broken.

Itis well known that, inagricultural operations, the

l commingling of manures and soils, making composts, e mixing in lime, ashes, plaster, poudret-tes, and other commodities lor fertilizingpurposes, the work has` usually been. done by hand-labor, with a hoe or-shovel, but by this method the stones in the soil, or lime and other large partshave to be thrown out by-hand, and

`the compound, when complete, is often not of that l l uniform grade-of mixture or iineness which is desir,-

able, and these difficulties have greatly retarded such mixing, although agriculturalists have long beenaware of'its importance and utility.

I prefer to mount the cylinder'v uponmy non-lieveheing hollow bent shaft, for which Letters Patent of the 'United States were granted to me bearing date J uly i 21,1868, for conveniencein lubricating the bearings, but more particularly so as to be able touse an open feeding-head, which, with a bent arm to the shaft,

leaves the hole in thefeeding-head comparatively free from obstruction. Nov particular manner of mountingv is essential. l l i A is the base of the frame on which thecylinder is mounted. ,I i

B B and B', upright posts and cross-barat the feed- C Gand C upright-posts and cross-bar at the other end, l l

S, the nonlrevolving bent shaftLwith arm a.

` H is the open feeding-head, made to 'project outwardly somewhat,`for co'nvenience'in feeding, and to keep the materials from falling o ut of thatend.

ln the shape oi' thecylinderD, I preferthat of a truncated cone, andI make itwith' ribs o1' staves 22e',

l e separated from eachother, so'thattlere willv be slots s ss between them.-

. For an ordinary-sizedmachine, thelength .of the cylinder would be 'aboutsix feet; the diameter at the' `larger end about twoand a half feet, and at the smaller end about two feet the'staves about three inches `wide and one and a quarter thick; the slots about half an inch wide, but their width will vary somewhat in diiierent machines, according to the degree of' fine-` The staves z z z are thickly set with strong teeth projecting inwardly, (of iron or other' suitable mateal,) andforming a kind. of revolving picker to, fucilia tate the picking and mixing of the compound.

For about one-third the distance from thefeeding/ head, more or less, I prefer to close the slots between the stave-work, so that the work `of' mixing may be more or less complete. beforev the riddling and screening commences.

The remainder is open stave-work, with teeth as above described, 'so that the work of picking and ccmmingling may continue while the screening proceeds, and the harder and tougher portions' picked and torn as much as possible, until, being incapable of further breakingand com mingling, they are thrown out at the open -head of the cylinder. A l

The vfeeding end of the. cylinder may be elevated somewhat when required, the height varying with different kinds of material, sotha't the refuse parts will vfinally be cast out at the open end ofthe cylinder.

G is an ordinary hand-gearing topperate the cylipder, which, however, will vary in form accordingV to circumstances, andthe manner in which the force is to be applied, andany other method of applying'motive power may be used. l

A cylinder thus formed and operated will be fono of lgreat use in commingling, mixing, sifting, or pre- "parin'gmanuresand the dilerent soils forgarden and 'horticultural purposes, and in mixing mannres and. 

